A strange power has drawn a collection of actresses to a quiet cul-de-sac of Disney+. Is it magic? A love of art? Simply a paycheck? The reasons vary, but everyone is here to hang out with Kathryn Hahn and play a witch in Agatha All Along , a sequel series to the streamer’s first ( and by far its best ) foray into Marvel television, WandaVision . The series is built around Hahn’s scheming villain, Agatha Harkness, who is, as of the start of Agatha , powerless and trapped in an homage to a TV true-crime procedural that resembles WandaVision ’s own genre parodies .
In Agatha ’s case, we get Hahn’s intentionally terrible Mare of Easttown Pennsylvania accent and an international-licensing joke that informs us this show is “based on the Danish series WandaVision .” But soon, Agatha breaks out of that spell, itself seemingly an aftereffect of Wanda’s magic (she went power mad and then died in Multiverse of Madness , by the way), and then launches into a quest to restore her powers with the help of a teen boy ( Heartstopper ’s Joe Locke in Limited Too mode), a coven of other witches who are outcasts (and beloved character actresses) in their own right, and a sinister rival witch played by Aubrey Plaza. The newly formed crew sets out along the “Witches’ Road,” a sort of pilgrimage on a celestial plane that grants your deepest desires, but only if you solve the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire– style tests along the way.
These turn into excuses for Agatha .